Milk-bottle cap



Patented Aug. 22, 1922.

I N VEN TOR.

A TTORNEY.

PATENT OFFICE.

AGNES B KENDALL, 0E SMITH CENTER, KANSAS.

MILK-BOTTLE car.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pate t d A 22 1922 Application filedJune 12, 1920. Serial No. 388,518.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Asuns B. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Smith Center, in the county of Smith and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-BottleCaps;,and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such v as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in milk bottlecaps and has for its primary object the provision of a tongue forming apart ofthe cap and adapted to facilitate the removal of the cap from abottle and which overlies the cap when not in use so as not to interferewith the application of the cap to a bottle or forming a tight sealtherefor. v

Another object of this invention is the provision of a milk-bottle capof the above stated character, which will be simple, durable, andefficient, and which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively lowcost.

With these and other objects 1n view as I will become more apparent asthe descripmy invention and showing in dotted lines the tongue in aposition to remove the cap,

Figure 2 is a side elevation illustrating the cap,

Figure 3 is a plan view of the same. Figure 4 is a plan view of the capwith the tongue extended.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the numeral 1 indicates a bottleneck having the usual flange 2, to be engaged by a disk or closureelement constructed from paper or any other material suitable for thepurpose.

The disk 3 has formed integrally with one end a tongue 4, which is bentto overlie and rest upon the top face of the disk and is cemented orotherwise secured to said disk as lllustrated at 5 and has its free enddisposed upwardly in an inclined plane to form a finger grip 6. Thefinger grip 6 is prefer" ably located centrally of the disk 3 so that aperson can readily grip the same and on exerting a pull on the tongue,the same becomes disengaged with the top face of the disk and lifts oneedge of the disk upwardly from the bottle neck permitting air to enterthe bottle and allow the easy removal of the cap from the bottle.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my,invention, it will be understood that minor changes in construction,combination, and arrangement of parts may be made without departing fromthe spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is A. stopper of theclass described having a d1sk,'a tongue integral therewith fastenedsecurely against the exterior of the same from the margin toapproximately the center thereof and having a free end movablerelatively to the disk to either lie flat against .it or be raised tofacilitate gripping, such construction enabling the stopper to beremoved by force exerted. at approximately its center and the stopper tobe rigidified from the periphery inwardly along a radial line so that inthe act of removal, such disk will move'out of its retaining groove andfollow such portion to thus function practically as a rigid extractormember.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AGNES B. KENDALL.

Witnesses Roxrn Down, P. A. MONGER.

